Famous people from Karnataka

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This is a list of famous and notable people from Karnataka.

'Criteria of Name' Inclusion: Names of people whose work has been appreciated by the public has been included in the list, not considering the critical views of some people.

Kindly note that not all the names of important personalities has included because of space and timelimit and also because the list of famous personalities from Karnataka is almost endless !!!!!!!!!

Arts and entertainment

Aishwarya RaiShe is an Indian actress and former Miss World

Kannada actorFamously called Mandyada Gandu

One of the all time greatest actors in the Kannada film industry

Bollyhood Actress Of Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi fame Anushka Sharma

An Indian model and Bollywood actress Amrita Rao

An Indian actor who has won two National AwardsAtul Kulkarni

A Kannada language film actor of MUNGARU MALE fame Golden Star" Ganesh

Deepika Padukone An Indian model turned actress

An Indian actor, film editor, producer and director in the Hindi film industryFeroz Khan

A contemporary writer, playwright, actor and movie director in Kannada language.Girish Karnad

an Indian actress and modelIshaa Koppikar

a leading film director, stage designer and art director from India.M. S. Sathyu

Prakash Rai studied in St.Joseph's Indian High School in Bangalore. He later joined St. Josephs College of commerce, Brigade road, Bangalore,Prakash Rai A National Film Award-winning Indian method actor and producer in Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu language films

An Indian actor and the youngest son of Kannada superstar Dr Rajkumar.Puneet Rajkumar

He primarily worked as a bus conductor for the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation in Bangalore.His charisma and style were noted by the passengers who travelled with him and gave him suggestions in becoming an actorHe was born as Shivaji Rao Gaekwad into a Marathi family in Bangalore, Karnataka,

a popular Kannada, Tamil and Telugu movie actorRamesh Aravind

Dr.Rajkumar He was a popular actor and singer in Kannada film industry

An Indian film actress ,acts in Kannada films as well as few Tamil films .She is also known by the name Divya Spandana . Ramya

An actor, director, producer, music director, and lyricist in the Kannada film industryV. Ravichandran

an Indian film actress and modelShilpa Shetty

A Kannada superstar. He is the son of legendary Kannada matine Dr.Rajkumar.Shivrajkumar

Sunil Shetty is an Indian film actor and film producer Sunil Shetty

A popular actor and singerVishnuvardhan

An Indian actress and singerVasundhara Das

film actress and theatre personalityArundathi Nag

One of the pioneers and most prolific contributors to Kannada theatreGubbi Veeranna

An Indian theatre and Film actress of Kannada Film Industry Umashree

Amarashilpi Jakanachari was a legendary sculptor credited with building many fine temples for the Kalyani Chalukyas and Hoysalas, including the famous sculptures at Belur and Halebidu.Amarashilpi Jakanachari

Sri Gundan Anivaritachari was the chief architect of the Virupaksha templeGundan Anivaritachari

An Indian cartoonist, illustrator and humoristR. K. Laxman

An Indian saxophonist and one of the pioneers of Carnatic music on the saxophoneKadri Gopalnath

He was a violin maestro from India in the Carnatic classical tradition.T Chowdiah

An Indian vocalist in the Hindustani classical tradition.Pandit Bhimsen G Joshi

Was an Indian singer of the khyal genre of Hindustani classical musicGangubai Hangal

An Indian music composer and exponent of Bhavageete ("expressive poetry") and Janapada Geete ("folk songs") in the Kannada language.C. Aswath

An Indian singer songwriter, composer and actor.Lucky Ali

A noted music director of the Kannada film industry Gurukiran

A Music Director and lyricist in the Kannada film industry.Hamsalekha

A musician and composer mainly active in Kannada cinema industrMano Murthy

guitarist-singer-composer-song writer-musician,Raghu Dixit

A well-known fashion designer has specialised in training models for the Miss India beauty pageants. Many of the past beauty queens are his studentsPrasad Bidapa

UB Breweries, Kingfisher Beer ,Kingfisher Airlines ,Force India, Royal Challengers Bangalore Vijay Mallya

Founder owner , Cafe Coffee DayV. G. Siddhartha

Founder of Air Deccan G. R. Gopinath

N. R. Narayana MurthyInfosys Technologies, Ltd. Nandan NilekaniInfosys Technologies, Ltd

youngest CEO of the world Suhas Gopinath

, Biocon India Ltd. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Wipro Technologies, Ltd. Azim Premji

Vaman Srinivas Kudva, Co-founder, Syndicate BankT. M. A. Pai, Co-founder, Syndicate Bank.

Upendra Ananth Pai, Co-founder, Syndicate Bank. Ammembal Subba Rao Pai, Founder, Canara Bank. A. B. Shetty, Founder, Vijaya Bank

Health Care

Devi Prasad ShettyAn Indian philanthropist and a renowned cardiac surgeon.

H. D. Deve GowdaHe was the 14th Prime Minister of the Republic of India (19961997) and the 14th chief minister of the state of Karnataka

Fernandes was a defence minister in the National Democratic Alliance Government (1998-2004)George Fernandes

He is the Indian Minister for External Affairs and a member of the Indian Parliament from Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha. He was the Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1999 to 2004 and the Governor of Maharashtra from 2004 to 2008.S. M. Krishna

He is the Honorable Minister for Law, Justice and Company Affairs in the Government of India. Moily is a former Chief Minister of the Indian state of Karnataka Veerappa Moily

B. S. YeddyurappaPresent Chief Minister of Karnataka

Former Police Officer, and M.P. Lok Sabha. H. T. Sangliana

B.K.S. Iyengar YOGA GURU

Hanumappa SudarshanHe is well known for his contributions to the upliftment of the forest dwelling tribes (mainly Soligas) in the Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka

He is the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society India ProgramK. Ullas KaranthTechnical Director of the WCS Tiger Conservation Program

Social ServiceSudha Murthy Veerendra Heggade Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji

Rahul DravidAnil Kumble

Robin UthappaManish Pandey

Others include

Suart BinnyVinay Kumar Venkatesh Prasad Roger Binny Syed KirmaniBrijesh Patel Javagal Srinath

B. P. Govinda (former captain, Arjun award) M. P. Ganesh (former captain, Arjun Award) Ashish Ballal Arjun HalappaHockey

TennisMahesh Bhupathi,

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